Automobile seat cover



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This invention relates to an automobile seat cover, and moreparticularly to a continuation in part of my application for patentfiled August 31st, 1929, Serial Number 389,635, which has materializedinto Patent No. 1,909,901 and has for its primary object the improvementof certain basic features of the invention set forth in the abovementioned application whereby additional connections can be establishedbetween the cover section and the seat structure.

An object of the invention resides in the combination of elementswhereby the cover section may be connected with the cushion of the seatstructure as well as the back portion of the seat I structure throughthe use of connections interlocking with the cushion and connectionssecured in fixed positions to the back surface of the seat structuresuch as by attachment to the back surface or to the usual robe railcarried thereby.

A feature of my invention resides in the yieldable connection of thefoot elements with the upper portion of the cover section so that thefoot elements may be yieldably adjusted into interlocking engagementwith the cushion of the seat structure while at the same time forcingthe cover section taut over the seat.

With these and other objects in view the invention will be betterunderstood from the following detailed description taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings wherein:

Figure l is a perspective view of one form of my invention.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of one corner .'J portion of the coverremoved from the seat.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the frame removed from the coversection.

Figure 4 is a sectional view on the line 4-4, Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a sectional view on the line 5-5,

Figure 2.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of another form of my invention.

Figure 7 is a sectional view on the line 7--'7,

14 Figure 6.

Figure 8 is a sectional view through one of the side bars.

Figure 9 is a perspective view of that form of frame illustrated inFigure 6.

Again referring to the drawings illustrating two of the many forms of myinvention and more particularly that form illustrated in Figures 1 to 5,the numeral 1 designates the cover section, adapted to extend over andcompletely cover the back 2, of the seat structure 3, that includes acushion 4. The cover section 1 is provided with a top seam 5 and sideseams 6 for reception of my special design of frame 7.

This frame 7 consists of a rod 8 mounted in the seam 5 and havingportions exposed through elongated openings 9 in the seam 5 for allowingadjustments of the connectors 10 that are slidably mounted on the rod 8.These connectors 10 are adapted to be secured directly to the backsurface of the seat structure or may be directly connected to the roberail 11, as illustrated.

For the purpose of tucking in and securing the ends of the cover sectionand establishing a connection between the rod and cushion 4, I haveillustrated side bars 12 flexibly connected to the rod 8 in any suitablemanner such as by coil springs 13. Each side bar 12 consists of a shank14 secured to the coil spring and a foot 15 adapted to engage under andinterlock with the cushion 4.

In the application of this form of my invention, the connectors, 10 areattached to the back portion of the seat structure which through the rod8 holds the top portion of the cover section in an extended positionover the top edge of the back of the seat. After this has beenaccomplished the side bars 12 are drawn downward and into interlockingengagement under the cushion 4. Due to the fact that the coil springs 13are arranged in the side scams 6, it will be appreciated that the endportions of the cover section are drawn into the recesses at the end ofthe seat structure, thereby drawing the cover section taut over theseat.

In Figures 6 to 9 exclusively, I have illustrated a type of coverparticularly adapted for application to the back seat structure of anautomobile. This cover also includes a cover section 16 pro- Vided witha top seam 17 for reception of the coil spring 18 that forms a componentpart of the attaching frame 19. This spring 18 as attached to the coversection by the seam 1'7 extends along the side portions of the seatstructure and attaches to side bars 20, each including a shank 21,

and foot element 22 for engagement under the seat cushion 4. It is avery simple operation to yieldably force the spring 18 and with it theseam 1'7 behind the top portion of the seat structure, and after thishas been accomplished the side bars 20 are drawn downwards so as toassume interlocking engagement with the seat cushion when the latter isarranged in place.

Of course, it is to be understood that coil springs may be attached tothe back section in various other manners than illustrated and the Vcomponent parts of the frame may be changed tion of a seat structure, Lshaped foot elements adapted to have one end portion engage under thecushion of a seat structure and its other end portion extendingvertically and a coil spring for each foot element extending over theback having one end fixed to one end of said rod and its other end fixedto the vertical end portion of said foot element and being secured tothe adjacent edge of the cover.

HARRY A. SALLOP.

